HfxTC

Everything I write is just an opinion formed from various sources. Some more reliable than others, it is expressed as a composite of facts, innuendos, emotions, personal experiences and complete fabulation into a gumbo for entertainment purposes alone.

bobo82

Wow !!! Cleveland eh Wow !!! I never realized that Maher didn't want to play professional football anymore . :lol: Yup, good luck to ya Brett on yer new career kicking for the Semi Pro Clowns . But seriously , congrats (I guess ?) and as the saying goes " Break a Leg " out there...... ( just kidding , kicking in Cleveland I highly doubt you'll even break a sweat out there )

Cleveland.................. just like running off to join the Circus :lol: :lol: :lol:

BYF

I wouldn't have found the news of Maher signing with an NFL team that surprising if he hadn't become quite inconsistent toward the end of last season. His lack of consistency on both punting and placekicking were reasons I for one thought that re-signing Maher may not have been something that the team must do. But it is unfortunate that once again, we need to find a placekicker, a punter, or someone who can do both of those things.

Who will take the place of Maher? Well, I don't think the replacement K/P will get picked on draft day. I remember how we thought that we'd get Quinn van Gylswyk a year ago, and I don't think there is anyone as good as van Gylswyk in this year's draft. Sergio Castillo, who was on this team's PR not long ago, could be brought back, and was mentioned as a possible replacement in this article: http://3downnation.com/2017/03/20/forme ... ns-browns/

It was also mentioned in that article that Anthony Fera and Chris Milo are available, but I wouldn't be that excited about Milo being signed here. Maybe the next Swayze Waters or Justin Medlock is out there and could be brought in, and would not take up as much cap space for now. Isn't Medlock making $175k in Winnipeg? That's quite a cap hit for a K/P who never was that great at punting.

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DisplacedCatsFan

@BYF - as others have mentioned, it seems to me that Maher's place-kicking woes started when both Fantuz and Tasker suffered their injuries. Both were holders for him, and any change that drastic that late in the season probably had something to do with his accuracy on field goals. What bothered me was his kickoffs and punts.

The blocked punts I wasn't TOO worried about, since, IMHO, they were a result of extremely poor blocking on the line. With the turn around of ST players having to move into more active Offence and Defence roles due to the myriad of injuries, there wasn't enough consistency for the blockers. While his net average was mediocre, some of that had to do with the emphasis on directional punting and poor ST tackling. The kickoffs, to me, were inexcusable. Unless the wind at THF changed direction randomly every second, there should be NO reason for a kickoff to go out-of-bounds. The times that he INTENTIONALLY tried to kick the ball OOB were during on-side attempts (and then both the idiots wearing the striped shirts and the even BIGGER idiot at the Kommand Kommissariate not knowing the rules) that were never recovered.

I wish Maher well in his latest NFL adventure; but really - the BROWNS???